Otfried Krzyzanowski
Otfried Friedrich Krzyzanowski (born June 25, 1886 in Starnberg , Bavaria , † November 30, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian bohemian and poet .
Life
Krzyzanowski was the son of Heinrich Krzyzanowski (1855–1933), a childhood friend of Hans Rott and Gustav Mahler , and Auguste, geb. Tschuppik (1861-1909). Grew up in Vienna from 1897, and from 1907 studied philosophy at the University of Vienna . After his mother's death in 1909, he broke off his studies in 1910 and devoted himself to literature and bohemianism. He refused the bourgeois way of life:
- “I have written and learned poetry, but I know very well that it cannot be called work. The truth is, I don't do anything and doing nothing is a great nuisance. How few can take it! "( Against the idlers , 1918, quoted from Gesammelte Werke , p. 59)
From 1912 onwards, a few poems and prose sketches that can be assigned to Expressionism appeared in magazines . Even Friedrich Nietzsche influenced him. "In his lyrical diction he orients himself largely to conventional, reductive-strict, rhyming verse forms, often declares his poems as songs and gives them musicality, for example through a ritual- like structure." (H. Vollmer, p. 192)
At that time he lived in need and poverty. He found his patrons in the coffee houses , especially in the Café Central in the circle around Franz Blei and Franz Werfel . He is much better known than through his works as the figure of the Viennese coffee house. Franz Werfel immortalized him in his novel Barbara or piety in the figure of Gottfried Krasny. Also in the works of Alfred Polgar , Anton Kuh , Albert Ehrenstein , Otto Soyka and others. a. there are descriptions of Krzyzanowski.
During the turmoil after the end of the First World War , Krzyzanowski died of starvation on November 30, 1918 . The Vienna General Hospital cites “emaciation” and “exhaustion” as the official cause of death. Since he was constantly commuting between the warring literary circles at Café Central and Café Herrenhof , his acquaintances missed him too late. The funeral they paid for is described by Blei and Werfel: The funeral orator Blei persistently calls him Othmar.
In 1919 Kurt Wolff Verlag published the volume of poetry, Our Daily Gift, posthumously . In 1923 Ernst Křenek set the poem Remembrance to music . Krzyzanowski was possibly also the model for Franz Kafka's hunger artist . Mutual acquaintances and Kafka's documented visit to Café Central in 1917 suggest this.
Works
- Otfried Krzyzanowski: Our daily poison. Poems. Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1919 (= The Youngest Day , Vol. 67), online
- Otfried Krzyzanowski: "Our daily poison". Collected Works. Ed. And with an afterword by Hartmut Vollmer. Igel Verlag, Oldenburg 2003. ISBN 3-89621-171-4
literature
- Elisabeth Buxbaum, Christian Fridrich (Ed.): Otfried Krzyzanowski "This time is not mine and the days flee." - Coffee house writer, bohemian, hungry poet. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2018. ISBN 978-3-99029-323-2
- Tom Riebe (Ed.): Otfried Krzyzanowski. Versensporn - Booklet for lyrical charms No. 31, Edition POESIE SCHMECKT GUT, Jena 2018.
- Werner J. Schweiger: … starved to death in 1918. Otfried Krzyzanowski . In: Die Pestsäule (Vienna), Vol. 2, Issue 2, October 1972, pp. 152–159 (Krzyzanowski's first published biography and bibliography)
- Hartmut Vollmer: "This time is not mine ..." On the life and work of the poet Otfried Krzyzanowski, who starved to death in Vienna in 1918. In: Expressionism in Austria. The literature and the arts. Edited by Klaus Amann u. Armin A. Wallas. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1994, pp. 526-548, ISBN 3-205-98196-0 .
- Otfried Krzyzanowski , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 147–150
Web links
- Literature by and about Otfried Krzyzanowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Otfried Krzyzanowski in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna
- Biography on the side of the old Hietzinger
- Die Presse - Review of the Collected Works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krzyzanowski, Otfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krzyzanowski, Otfried Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet and bohemian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starnberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1918 |
| Place of death | Vienna |